NARM Well Attended and "Dallas" Still Ticking!

Dr. Roger Smith and Moira McCracken made a trip to Countryside Veterinary Hospital in Louisville, TN, after the North American Regenerative Meeting in Atlanta, GA. NARM was well attended and had extremely informative and interesting lectures on regenerative medicine for equine and canine.
The photo is of Dr. Phil Hammock, Countryside Veterinary Hospital; the owner of Dallas, a horse we treated with 50M stem cells several years ago who had kidney failure and is still doing very well; and, Dr. Roger Smith from the UK.

ACVS Surgical Summit (and ComicCon)

This year's ACVS Surgical Summit coincided with ComicCon in San Diego, which made for some interesting encounters. At times we were concerned that we might not be able to differentiate between ComicCon attendees and the new intake of veterinary surgeons!

Florida Association of Equine Practitioners

Photo (right) from The Florida Association of Equine Practitioners "Promoting Excellence" Symposium just held in Boca Raton, FL. This event was well attended by many vets across the USA and Canada, this is Dr. Alan Manning from Manning Veterinary Professional Corporation located in Ontario, Canada, one of our regular E-PET™ customers!

NEAEP in Stamford, Connecticut "Summary"

We have just returned from NEAEP in Stamford, Connecticut where we participated in a several days of education, and we conducted a wet lab on stem cells and PRP with Dr. Roger Smith, from the Royal Veterinary College in London and Dr. Jeff Schaffer from Pall Corporation. The session was very well attended by 12 vets and the feedback we received was all extremely positive.

We are now off to FAEP’s 9th Annual Promoting Excellence Symposium in the SE, followed closely by the ACVS in San Antonio... Hope to see you there!
Annual Promoting Excellence Symposium in the SE followed closely

Photos from the NEAEP Meeting Stem Cell Wet Lab held on Wednesday, 25th of September 2013, entitled "Regenerative Medicine for Tendon and Liagments" by Dr. Roger Smith and Dr. Jeffery Schaffer.

Dr. Smith talking about ultra-sound injection of E-PET. You can see filter hanging under the stairs as we are waiting for PRP.

Left: Roger presenting one of his lectures during the wet lab. Right: Photo of Roger ultrasounding and placing needles into the various areas before he is going to inject this horse.

The Hambeltonian "Summary"

The Hambletonian at New Jersey’s Meadowlands is an historic event in the equestrian world and it draws some of our country’s finest veterinarians for the classic racing event and for continuing education meetings.

Dr. Jeffrey Schaffer, representing Pall Corporation, lead the attendees through a stall-side demonstration of the Veterinarian Platelet Enhancement Therapy kit. He aspirated blood from an
equine patient, processed the sample in the E-PET Kit and injected the enhanced platelets into
the horse’s injury within 20 minutes.

The comments from attendees were “This was a very helpful event for understanding the full process for drawing bone marrow and injecting the stem cells.” Another veterinarian was surprised at the ease of use and convenience of the stall-side harvest of platelets. “We can just place a kit in the truck and make calls and cut out a lot of travel time,” commented an ambulatory veterinarian.

Stemming the Risk of Re-Injury from much-loved ponies to million-dollar raceshorses, stem cell therapy is among the most advanced treatments for equine tendon and ligament injuries...

Shortly after National Hunt racehorse Nomecheki (Fr) was brought from France, it was discovered that he had damage to his SDFT. The horse's owner was
keen to use stem cell therapy and his veterinarian, Dr. Tim Beauregard, advised that it would be the best course of treatment. 'Cheki' was soon back to work following VetCell's rehabilitation program to get to full fitness again. He made a winning return to the racetrack at Plumpton in England in November 2009 in heavy going and since then has had another win, two seconds, two thirds and a fourth from 14 runs. This picture above shows him at Cheltenham in
November 2011, clearly loving his job having led the field for the majority of the race... (download article - PDF.)

2013 EqPA Ad published in Southern Racehorse

A Leading distributor of TherapyCell, Pall (E-Pet), and RenovoCyte products& services, Equine Partners America is dedicated to providing the most
progressive regenerative medicine products to assist horses' recovery
from injury and to promote optimum health. To that end, we offer a broad
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Equine Partners continually monitors and participates in ongoing research
to stay abreast of breakthrough scientific findings that will assist us in our
efforts. We know: early treatment improves outcomes; there is no
discernible outcome difference among types of work or performance;
and outcomes appear to be dose-related (a 20M cell dose reduces
reinjury rate), 2,000 horses in treatment with VetCell protocol included
in data spanning 10 years.

We are proud of the professional collaborations we have made to
continue to develop the science of equine regenerative medicine. The
VetCell stem cell protocol has treated more than 2,000 horses through
their courses of therapy and rehabilitation, producing a reliable and peer-reviewed database of treatment outcomes. RenovoCyte has developed
less invasive protocols to harvest mesenchymal stem cells from skin and
other sources. Pall Corporation used its expertise in developing filtration
products to manufacture a unique, stall-side equine platelet enhanced
therapy (E-PET). These partnerships ensure that we can offer our clients
comprehensive veterinary platforms for horses not found anywhere else.

Most importantly, we are firmly committed to distributing our products in
the most direct, cost-effective and transparent manner possible. It is our
pledge to those who utilize our products for the betterment of their horses.

"At Gwinnett Animal Hospital, we are always searching for new methods to better treat our patients and to provide the standard of care that their owners expect. We feel that utilizing PRP therapy, especially with the filtered PRP system from Pall, has allowed us to greatly improve our ability to treat chronic osteoarthritis and therefore has improved our patient care."
-Kathryn Padgett, DVM. Gwinnett Animal Hospital, Snellville, GA-

"Filtered PRP is my go to product for platelet enhanced therapy. It is cost effective in my practice situation, technically simple, fast and efficient, no special equipment extras (expense) and it works. Clients like that the treatment can be done as an out-patient."
-Bob Norrie-

"I have used the filtered PRP kits since first coming to market in 2005. Its beneficial effects in bowed tendons and subsequently for suspensory injuries basically changed my entire treatment protocol for these common injuries. I now use the filtered PRP kits in post-operative joints with extensive cartilage damage and joints with soft tissue injuries. The beneficial effects of growth factors are enormous. I have even had occasion to use the platelet concentrate on severely ulcerated eyes, again with profound effects.
I have tried a few other PRP products but continue to use the filtered PRP kit from Pall Corporation due to convenience and efficacy."
-Phillip D. Hammock, DVM, MS, Diplomate ACVS. Countryside Veterinary Services, Louisville, TN-

"We use the filtered PRP system because it’s simple to use, easy to have on hand in the trucks or clinic, and has resulted in reliable healing and patient outcomes for us. Filtered PRP allows us to provide cutting edge,
same-day, and same-appointment care to our patients and excellent service to our clients."
-Brittany A. Harris, DVM. Centennial Equine Sports Medicine, Professional LLC, Pagosa Springs, CO-

"Equine Partners America is a professional company with one-on-one customer service."
-Laurie Monroe-

"I started using filtered PRP in dogs that were not great surgical candidates for various reasons. The results were so good; I started offering it as another treatment option for all dogs with partial cruciate injuries. Our results have been outstanding."
-Deborah Grissom, DVM. Caroline Animal Hospital, Milford, VA-

"We have been extremely pleased with the results we have obtained through the use of PRP. We have had excellent results using the product for arthropathies that have not responded to the traditional therapies and or rest. We also use it intralesionally for select tendon and ligament injuries with good results. The product is convenient to prepare and administer. Your customer support services have been excellent."
-Margaret Mac Harg DVM,MS,DACVS. Kendall Road Equine Hospital, Elgin, IL-